Beppu City is located on South Western island of Kyushu in the Japanese isles, and is in Oita Prefecture. Beppu is renown as a Onsen city that is surrounded by beautiful sea and mountains. To the east spreads out the gentle Beppu Bay, and to the west is Mount Tsurumi, which is part of the Aso-Kuju national park.

The Beppu Onsen gush volume is second to the Yellow Stone National Park in the U.S.A. There are 11 types of hot springs (Onsen) in the world, of which 10 of them can be found in Beppu. This makes Beppu as one of leading diversified hot springs tourist resort cities in the world. From the above reasons, Beppu enjoys high populace among the many hot spring, Onsen resort cities in Japan.

When you come to Beppu, the most wonderful and surprising thing is the fumes and steam rising from the hot springs around. The sight of the fumes and steam going up from the Onsen makes us feel the greatness of energy of the globe.

There are 2,849 0nsen within the 14km range from east, west, south and north parts of Beppu. There are categorized into the 8 hot springs .

Hamawaki Onsen has a long history and is well known for its hot spring gush, which spurts out from sand beach on the seaside. In this Onsen city, even now there are many historical buildings of Meiji era still remaining.
Beppu Onsen spreads around the JR Beppu station in the downtown Beppu city center area and also cover the hilly area where high class cottages are located There are many Japanese inns or ryokan, hotels and restaurants. Takegawara hot spring or Onsen pavilion symbolizes the old history of Beppu where there is a sand hot spring or onsen.
Shibaseki Onsen is surrounded by mountains and located in a gorge. It was formed by a number of jigoku(hells). The natural environment surrounding it enriches it.
Myoban Onsen is a special onsen, which located at the bottom of sulfuric mountain sulfuric where sulfuric gas can be smelt from the hot springs. The Yunohanagoya (huts) for collecting a special product called Yunohana- sulfuric powder for onsen looks wonderful because they are lined up in beautiful rows.
Hamawaki Onsen has a long history and is well known for its hot spring gush, which spurts out from sand beach on the seaside. In this hot spring city, even now there are many historical buildings of Meiji era still remaining.
Kankaiji Onsen is located in heights that have a wonderful view together with a big resort hotel. In addition, there is Youth Hotel there too.
Hotta Onsen spurts out from the countryside, where the rich and natural beauty still remains

Kannawa Onsen is the onsen where smoke and fumes rise up from everywhere and is very rich in natural onsen sources. Located in this rich onsen area are the jigoku (hells). There are many hot springs here and one can actual feel the deep relationship with people's life and onsen.

When you stay in Beppu, we recommend that you visit the 8 Beppu Hatto(8 major hot spring) by all means. Actually feeling the atmosphere of each individual characteristics of the onsen, you can surely feel the diversity of this hot spring resort area.